University of Maryland School of Medicine names new dean

Dr. Mark T. Gladwin was named as the subsequent dean of the College of Maryland Faculty of Medication after a nationwide search to switch Dr. E. Albert Reece, who introduced final 12 months he would step down after 16 years main the medical faculty.

Gladwin is a coronary heart, vascular and lung doctor and scientist, and at the moment serves as a professor and chair of the division of drugs on the College of Pittsburgh Faculty of Medication.

He’ll start the brand new positions of dean and vice chairman for medical affairs August 1 at a time when the Baltimore medical faculty has vastly elevated its analysis and medical {dollars} and its footprint.

Analysis funding reached $600 million in recent times and medical revenues at the moment are round $350 million, with college physicians offering inpatient and outpatient care to greater than 1.5 million sufferers yearly at 62 areas round Maryland. The college additionally maintains analysis and therapy services in 30 nations.

It holds 130 U.S. and 228 overseas patents and 205 know-how licenses and its college have have made 576 scientific disclosure and have began 33 corporations.

The Maryland medical faculty turned identified through the coronavirus pandemic for growing and testing therapies and vaccines. And in January it gained consideration for performing the primary transplant of a genetically modified pig coronary heart right into a affected person, who lived for 2 months after the surgical procedure.

“I’m very honored to have been chosen as dean of one of the crucial prestigious medical faculties within the nation,” Gladwin stated in an announcement.

“Every thing I realized throughout my go to to UMB furthered my need to hitch the College of Maryland Faculty of Medication,” he stated. “I used to be already effectively conscious of its status for excellence in schooling, analysis, medical care and neighborhood outreach. I look ahead to listening to, and studying from UMB college, workers, and college students as we proceed the essential work of carrying the Faculty’s mission ahead in Baltimore, across the state and around the globe.”

Gladwin comes with an intensive medical, administration and analysis resume.

He additionally serves as affiliate dean for physician-scientist mentoring and affiliate vice chancellor for science technique, well being sciences, on the College of Pittsburgh Faculty of Medication. He was a founding father of the Pittsburgh Coronary heart, Lung, Blood and Vascular Medication Institute.

“I couldn’t be extra happy to announce Dr. Gladwin as the subsequent dean of the College of Maryland Faculty of Medication,” stated Dr. Bruce E. Jarrell, president of the College of Maryland, Baltimore, who introduced the appointment in a letter Tuesday to college, workers and college students. “I’m assured he’ll proceed to complement the legacy of our Faculty of Medication and place our world-class establishment to satisfy the challenges of the longer term.”

Officers stated they sought a brand new chief who might oversee educational and medical missions, work with the encompassing Baltimore neighborhood and keep the partnership with the College of Maryland Medical System, the affiliated 13-hospital community within the state.

Search committee members referred to as the job difficult and multifaceted and stated Gladwin had the suitable {qualifications}.

“The search committee was impressed by not solely his expertise, but additionally his imaginative and prescient for the way forward for drugs and the function of the medical faculty in at this time’s society,” stated Claire M. Fraser, a professor of drugs and director of the Institute for Genome Sciences and chair of the search committee.

Aishwarya Iyer, an MD/PhD scholar within the Faculty of Medication and president of the College Scholar Authorities Affiliation additionally was on the choice committee.

“I assumed his analysis portfolio was phenomenal,” she stated. “He comes from a extremely robust establishment and has a variety of expertise managing his place very effectively and really effectively. I’m excited to welcome this new dean.”

Choice committee members stated Gladwin additionally would be capable of fulfill one other want of the job, making certain range, fairness and inclusion.

In Pittsburgh, he created a brand new vice chair place for range and inclusion and labored with the residency director to develop a specialty observe geared toward attracting underrepresented minorities, amongst different initiatives.

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That work will proceed at Maryland, the place the medical faculty already has undergone modifications to handle allegations of sexual harassment and of a failure to create an equitable surroundings for ladies. In response in 2018, the varsity took a number of steps below a program referred to as Program in Cultural Transformation that included selling a number of girls to govt management positions and making a committee to make extra suggestions and assess progress.

Gladwin earned his bachelor’s and medical levels from the College of Miami and accomplished his internship and chief residency in inner drugs on the Oregon Well being Science College. He accomplished a vital care drugs fellowship on the Nationwide Institutes of Well being and a pulmonary fellowship on the College of Washington in Seattle.

He has served in varied positions at NIH and the College of Pittsburgh, the place he was recruited in 2008 to function chief of the division of pulmonary, allergy and important care drugs and the inaugural director of the Vascular Medication Institute. He turned division chair in 2014 and oversaw 800 college and $300 million in medical and analysis funding.

Sickle cell analysis has been a selected focus for Gladwin for greater than twenty years. He has lots of of revealed manuscripts within the fields of vascular and nitric oxide biology and has been the principal investigator on main medical trials.

He was born in Palo Alto, California, and raised across the nation and in Ghana, Mexico and Guatemala.

Dean Reece will stay as a part of the medical faculty’s college and as director of a brand new Middle for Superior Analysis, Coaching and Innovation and as co-director the varsity’s Middle for Start Defects Analysis.

“On behalf of the Faculty of Medication, I’m delighted to increase heartiest congratulations and a heat welcome to Dr Gladwin on his decanal appointment,” Reece stated in an announcement. “I’m most happy to ‘move the baton’ to him and look ahead to his management within the years to come back.”